SPRINGHILL GROUP KOREA - Is Home for the Aged a Better Option

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• SPRINGHILL GROUP KOREA - Is Home for the Aged a
  Better Option

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In a fast phase world like ours, finding time for
fun and leisure is hard and finding time for
family is harder. Sometimes we are left with no
choice. We are forced to leave our elderly
family members in a nursing home or more popular
as home for the aged.
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There is always two sides in a story, leaving
elderly family member in a caring home has
advantages and disadvantages. Number of senior
citizens suddenly seemed to multiply since
1950s. In 1900 the average life expectancy was
forty-five, by 1950 the average life span was
almost seventy years the population has doubled
but the number of people65 and over had
quadrupled to become 8 of the total.
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In 1950s more and more population of retirees
are supposed to get their pensions. Due to this
case, extended families are seemed to be an
obligation, where elderly had to stay with their
sons, daughters or grandchildren.
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People then began wondering how to accommodate
this burden. They started taking about nursing
homes, retirement houses, or apartments where
they can leave their elderly
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Golden years are supposed to have a positive
connotation but now the phrase developed into a
different meaning. Instead of the golden years
being now, I a ones old age golden refer to the
good old days.
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Studies showed that people in developed countries
are not only living longer, but also remain
healthy for much of their lives, unlike in less
developed countries, where the elderly tend to be
plagued with serious illnesses.
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Causing them to live longer which means
government has to support them because they are
already retirees. In order to support them, one
must work and working means no one to take care
of the elderly.
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Elderly has a special healthcare although
facilities like home for the aged are designed to
take care of them they are often lacking human
resources and other needs of these retirees.
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A sad truth is some facilities have no mercy on
their patients. Sometimes they overmedicate them
and let them lay in their beds for hours and even
days.
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They lack people to attend to the elderly so they
had to choose over feeding them and bathing them.
They feed them and who knows how and what, and
then they will let them stay in soiled clothes
and beds. Those were just samples.
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Those were just samples. But not every home is
like that, there are homes where they will take
care of the elderly and makes sure that they are
well feed and well medicated.